Collectives: Shared Activities & Community Building

Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics, Rafi Segal

Architecture, Building, Co-creation, Co-living, Collaborative work, Collective city, Collective identity, Collectives, Community, Cultural agitator, Digital era, Digital technologies, Essay, Political implications, Public realm, Public Space, Public vs. Private, Sharing economy, Social infrastructure, Social strategies, Urbanism

COLLECTIVES refers to the groups and partnerships that seek an architectural-urban project for shared activities and community building. Constituted by a voluntary group of people who organize around shared values and mutual understanding, this kind of collective seeks to improve the way they live – shaping their community, creating a social support system, practicing common ideals and principles, affording better living conditions for their means, and facilitating opportunities to establish friendships.